Meet the editors

Dengming Xiao was born in Guangxi Province, China in 1953. He received a PhD from the School of Electrical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, in 1994. Currently, he is Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. He has worked on gas insulation systems, electrical equipment online monitoring, and fault diagnosis for more than 20 years. His current focus is on

environmental friendly substitutes for the insulating medium SF6. He has presided over a number of projects supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China and has published more than 150 papers.

Dr. Krishnaswamy Sankaran is the Chief Executive Officer of Radical Innovations Group AB, a clean energy and circular economy infrastructure development company based in Finland. He is the winner of the 2020 Mission Innovation Champion Award under the flagship of 24 countries around the world plus European Commission for his pioneering work in Clean Energy and Circular Economy. He is an established industrialist and entrepre-

neur with several years of demonstrated track record in energy, utilities, infrastructure, manufacturing, and recycling industries. He has served in various operational and leadership roles in industries, the World Economic Forum, and the European Commission in more than sixteen countries and four continents. He is nominated by the Government of Finland for the prestigious 2020 Mission Innovation Champion Award, a global recognition for clean energy innovation (http://mission-innovation. net/). Dr. Sankaran received a doctorate in Engineering Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich, Switzerland, a master's degree from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, Germany, and a joint executive master's degree in Organisational Development and Leadership from Wharton School, Columbia University, INSEAD, and London Business School. He has several years of training in yoga and Advaita Vedanta, an Indian traditional system of philosophy.

Contents

and Dielectrics

*by Krishnaswamy Sankaran*

Electrostatic Elimination

*by Reza Haghighi Osgouei*

Used in Inverter-Fed Motors *by Yan Yang and Guangning Wu*

*by Zion Menachem*

*by Su Zhao and Dengming Xiao*

*by Chao Wang, Yifan Kang and Yonglin Bai*

*Shinichi Yamaguchi and Hidemi Nagata*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 5**

**Chapter 3 21**

**Chapter 4 41**

**Chapter 5 55**

**Chapter 6 73**

**Chapter 7 89**

**Chapter 8 107**

Introductory Chapter: Modern Applications of Electrostatics

Coulomb Potential Modulation of Atoms by Strong Light Field: Electrostatic Tunneling Ionization and Isolated Attosecond Light Pulse

Development of a Corona Discharge Ionizer Utilizing High-Voltage AC Power Supply Driven by PWM Inverter for Highly Efficient

*by Katsuyuki Takahashi, Koichi Takaki, Isao Hiyoshi, Yosuke Enomoto,* 

Electrostatic Friction Displays to Enhance Touchscreen Experience

Failure Mechanism and Property Modification of Insulation Material

Dielectric Analysis Model for Measurement of Soil Moisture Water

Techniques for Calculating Two Interesting Types of Dielectric Materials

Research Progress on Synergistic Effect between Insulation Gas Mixtures

Content Using Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography

in Straight Rectangular Waveguides and Their Applications

*by Mukhlisin Muhammad and Saputra Almushfi*
